Zhang Ziyun

Zhang Ziyun (1893-1975) was a Chinese government official and warlord from the Central Plains. He fought in the Battle of Guandu against the armies of Jiang Jieshi.

Biography
Zhang Ziyun was born in Luoyang to a wealthy Chinese landowning family, the Zhangs of Si Province. Ziyun was appointed as Inspector of Luoyang at the age of 17 in 1910 and fought for his lands and nobility against the rebels of Yuan Shikai. After the 1912 Chinese Revolution, Ziyun remained in money and power as a warlord, and continued to hold political power. He was elected to Parliament in 1915 in the second parliamentary elections in the history of the Republic of China, and represented the Luoyang prefecture-level city. During the Chinese Civil Wars of 1926-1937, however, he was more than just a representative; he commanded his own army of "government troops" that were under his command. Among the Central Plains Warlords, he resisted the Kuomintang leader Jiang Jieshi, but in the Battle of Guandu on 21 January 1926 was defeated and captured by the Nationalists. He was exiled to Mongolia, and he later died in Japan in 1975, having moved there in 1938 after the Mongolian Purges.